Contributors
Jennifer Judd-McGee
Jennifer is a full-time artist and mother of two. She recently renovated an old house with her family and works from home in her downeast Maine studio. Paper cutting and illustration are her primary mediums, and her work is influenced by her coastal surroundings. She shows her original work in galleries across the U.S. Find her at jenniferjuddmcgee.com.
Indrani Perera
Indrani is a maker, writer, and explorer. She is determined to learn as many traditional crafts as she can and also teaches barefoot-shoe-making workshops. Her passion is using natural and native Australian materials to make the things she needs. Follow her adventures in making at indraniperera.com or on Instagram @indraniperera.
Hannah Welling
Hannah can be found most days homeschooling her two children, fiber farming, working in the garden, or photographing farm life and Maine culture. Her work and thoughts can be found at mindfulfolkfarm.com.
Ellen Zachos
Ellen teaches foraged mixology workshops to bartenders in partnership with Rémy Cointreau USA and is a regular contributor to several Edible Communities publications. A longtime instructor at the New York Botanical Garden, Ellen is the author of six books, including The Wildcrafted Cocktail and Backyard Foraging. She shares wild seasonal recipes at backyardforager.com.
Denise Parsons
Denise is author of the novel After the Sour Lemon Moon (2014). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in West Marin Review, Kindred, and Fish & Game Quarterly. Denise lives and works in San Francisco, California. See more at deniseparsons.com.
Ben Cosgrove
Ben is a musician and writer based in northern New England. He travels the country writing and performing instrumental music about landscape, place, and ecology. His latest record, Salt, will be released this year. For more about his work, please visit bencosgrove.com.
Ashlyn Holmes
Ashlyn is an environmental scientist and crochet designer living in a 1920s farmhouse in southern Louisiana with her husband and two pups. You can often find her on her front porch with a fiber project and homemade iced coffee in hand. She also loves gardening, antiquing, and cooking southern and French cuisine for her loved ones. See more at shirleyandeadie.blogspot.com.
Annabel Wrigley
Annabel is an author and fabric designer and the owner of Little Pincushion Studio, a bright and inspiring creative space in Warrenton, Virginia. She teaches sewing to boys and girls ages six and up and encourages kids to think outside the box and explore their creative side. Annabel’s crafting and sewing videos can be found at creativebug.com, and she is inspiring a whole generation of creative kiddos with her We Love to Sew book series published by C and T.
Anna Hewitt
Anna is passionate about everyday creativity and encouraging everyone to find joy in making things. She spends most of her time writing, baking, sewing, bicycling, and growing alongside her two young children and husband in southern Maine. See more of her work at annaghewitt.com.
Anna Bowen
Anna is a freelance editor, writer, poet, and emerging podcaster based in Guelph, Ontario. Her poetry examines location, place, ecology, and labor. She interviews Canadian authors for the Eden Mills Writers’ Festival podcast and is working on her first collection of poetry, Holding Places. You can listen to her poems and podcasts at annabowen.org
Abigail Gray Swartz
Abigail Gray Swartz is an artist whose illustrations have appeared in the New York Times, Lenny Letter, and others. She recently painted a version of Rosie the Riveter that was chosen for the cover of the New Yorker’s “Women’s March” issue. Abigail lives in Maine with her husband, their two children, and one cautious little dog. See her work at graydaystudio.com.
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